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...Today-full-color-weather-map news judgment in its incubating stages? I wasn't eager to find out. Not wanting to quash his enthusiasm, however, I jotted this down as the first question...
...producers of Wired finally find a distributor -- no thanks to Hollywood, they say, which feared the film's seamy revelations and closed ranks in an effort to quash...
...boom-and-bust cycle that continues to this day. Says Celia Hunter, a lodge keeper who came to the territory 42 years ago: "Alaskans have always looked for the big bang that would solve all their problems." Some development schemes were downright absurd. In the late 1950s, Hunter helped quash a proposal to use atom bombs to blast an artificial harbor out of the northern coast. "The argument even then was jobs, jobs, jobs," she says...
...there now so much activism on Harvard's campus that we should begin to quash new initiatives? Good democracy is based on pluralism. Pluralism means that all those with a common interest should band together and work to achieve their goals...
...Wiener writes in The Nation article that evidence about Parsons' post-war recruiting activities may quash the renaissance in Parsonian scholarship...